[bksvol-discuss] Re: Are You Guys Getting Your "About to Expire" Notices?

  • From: Laura Ann <agapetouchmassage@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:00:41 -0600

sounds good.
I don't mind 100 results per page for quicker results.
Laura Ann
At 04:32 PM 1/20/2009, you wrote:
Hi All,

I wanted to share the response from the engineering team as to the reasoning behind the cap on the number of records listed per page.

"It was done this way for performance reasons. We don't want to give the database stress (retrieving 500 results at once). We'll evaluate the performance implications and change if it seems low-risk."

Seems like a reasonable plan doesn't it?

Thanks,
Pavi


Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare

Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone:  +1 650 644-3459

pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:07 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are You Guys Getting Your "About to Expire" Notices?

Hi Lori,

My change from listing 25 to listing 100 seems to have stuck.

But since you brought up the Proofreading page, another issue I have is that
I would like to know precisely why it was set up such that we cannot view
all of the books on the Proofreading page at one time, as we used to be able
to on Step One. Is that an upgrade? I ask you.

Evan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 7:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are You Guys Getting Your "About to Expire"
Notices?


> And Mike had three books expire because he did not get the notice.  Seems
> to me the books are harder to find now as we can review only 25 results at
> a time.  Oh, well.
>
> Cat Lover Lori
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 2:38 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Are You Guys Getting Your "About to Expire"
> Notices?
>
>
>> Hi Evan,
>>
>> I did get one notice of a book due to expire.  Will post here if
>> anything else expires without my being notified.
>>
>> Mayrie
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
>> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:39 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Are You Guys Getting Your "About to Expire"
>> Notices?
>>
>> Just wondering whether anyone else has had a book expire, or has renewed
>> a
>> book that was due to expire less than two days from the time you renewed
>> it.
>> I submitted a book for Lissi to validate and she did not get any notice
>> that
>> the book was due to expire in two days. Nor, did she gget a notification
>> that the book actually had expired, which it did before she renewed it.
>>
>> Are you all getting your notices? I've written to Pavi about this.
>>
>> The book that expired was apparently picked up by someone else and, I
>> think,
>> rejected. I cannot tell for sure because the letter from Bookshare is a
>> bit
>> ambiguous, saying that the book "has not been added" to the collection.
>> But
>> it doesn't say what DID happen to it, whether it was kicked back to the
>> list
>> of books to be proofread, or sent to the rejection list. I checked my
>> list
>> of books that have been rejected and it wasn't there, and I did not find
>> it
>> on the list of books to be proofread. Needless to say, I have written to
>> Pavi about this as well.
>>
>> I am sorry to say that, given the lack of acknowledgement of books sent
>> up
>> to the Admin Queue, the lack of a quality analysis on the proofreading
>> page,, the lack of expiration notices, the ambiguity of my recent letter
>> from Bookshare, communication between Bookshare to its volunteers seems
>> to
>> be a lower priority than it used to be.
>>
>> Yes, I know that Pavi said that they would work on the acknowledgement
>> issue, but there seems to be a whole range of examples that indicate a
>> lowering of interest in clear feedback to the volunteers.
>>
>> I did not participate in the recent thread concerning not liking the new
>> site, but I am afraid that I am beginning to think that in addition to
>> some
>> issues I have with the site, I am liking the new Bookshare less overall.
>> They have built the site "from the ground up" as I believe they said,
>> when
>> perhaps they should have taken what worked well from the old site and
>> added
>> to it. Now they have to spend all this time fixing things that worked
>> just
>> fine before.
>>
>> Evan
>>
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